Profiling Additional Cases From The First Book By Dr. Ardy S. Clarke (That Book Is Currently Out Of Print)
- michaeldj1950
- May 11
- 9 min read
Updated: May 14
Over a period of three and a half decades, a Montana State University professor (now in emeritus status) collected accounts of close encounters of the third and fourth kind. She did so in the many communities she served assisting community leaders, teachers, police, social workers, prospective university students and many residents of varying backgrounds. She had become known early in her career as a person wanting to hear and record accounts of this type, and was trusted to disguise identities of those whose stories were chosen to be published.
Dr. Clarke took an anthropological approach that highlighted the insider (ie the witness or encounter experiencer) point of view without imposition of outsider interpretations. ( She did ask questions to expose potential conditioning factors and sometimes counseled to mitigate conditioning from fundamentalist religious views.)
Her first book consisted of reports from residents of reservations. The second was a selection of half of nearly 100 cases gathered as she toured Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and Mexico on semester breaks over a period of several years. Her third book was based on reports from "urban" Indians (not living on reservations. The fourth and last book (2019) provides a detailed look at a spectrum of beings engaged in a variety of different activities.
This paper will share additional cases not profiled in my initial paper presenting descriptions of some of the cases from her first, and currently out of print, book. It's title:
~~~Encounters With Star People: Untold Stories of American Indians
2012---Anomalist Books
27 cases
Paper link with summary profiles of 8 of these 27 cases from her first book:
(Links to the papers sharing summary profiles of cases from her subsequent 3 books presenting encounter cases will be posted at end of this paper.)
Patterns of Entity Identity And Activity From Cases Profiled In First Paper :
Chapter One: A massive cylindrical craft associated with discovered mutilated cattle. Husband (police officer) and wife (teacher) experience missing time and do not recover memories, so no entity description provided. Husband's personal gun is damaged (barrel is melted closed).
Chapter Two: In an isolated area of North Dakota a sole resident of the area witnesses a crash of a cylindrical craft in late 1944 and for a few months the resident becomes acquainted with 14 survivors from a planet that experienced disasters requiring underground living. Entities described as over 7 feet tall and "so white that you could see inside them". Their eyes changed color with changing light conditions. Longer fingers than humans.
Chapter Three: Large craft hovering over reservoir while two human like figures in the dark look for something in a nearby house.
Chapter Four: An elderly man encounters "the slightest man I ever saw" examining his dog with curiosity. Further description: looking ghost-like, he wore a jumpsuit with dark fabric which, when he moved, "gave off a funny light". With apparent telepathy, he "somehow explained to me that he was from the stars". The two, with dog, walk to a small craft nearby. The being impressed with dog responding to commands.
Chapter Five: A snow plow driver recounts surprising a landed ufo on a snow-obscured highway, which suddenly departs, leaving behind a small being (size of ten year old) with large dark eyes behind protective gear and a four finger hand. Communication via telepathy; the freezing being reluctantly joins driver in cab by simply appearing there from outside. Driver curious about that and is told humans have the potential for such a capacity.
Chapter Eight: A long time friend relates to Clarke an incident he and two colleagues from his Air Force unit, where they experienced a disc-shaped craft hovering over their base. Clarke gets contact info for his collegues (not seen by him in years) and eventually interviews them. The three relate that another airmen fired on the craft which then immobilized the man with a beam of light.
Chapter Sixteen: A New Mexican teacher in 2005 relates his story of being part of an abduction project he concluded involved "reproduction". He describes the beings involved: "They have huge eyes" and "they look like big insects" with "skinny legs and arms" who communicate via telepathy. The beings engaged in medical exams and taking specimens. Early on as a child he remembers interacting with other children onboard. He became angry with the intrusions as he got older.
Chapter Twenty-six: Accounts from four police officers at same unit describing 3 separate incidents of accidently sighting apparent alien craft, 2 of the incidents where humanoid beings seen examining landed craft.
Note: click on above link for a fuller description of the above cases I shared in the earlier paper covering Clarke's first book.
Additional Cases From Book One:
Chapter Nine:
This story was related in the late 1980s by a Navajo working in the juvenile justice program. The reader will note that the agenda of the contact described in this case basicly matches what is described in Chapter Two of Book # Two. Only main difference is the craft and beings are not described here in this Book # One case.
While the details provided were sparse, he describes this: "From the time I was born, I had a twin, not in the sense of a biological twin, but a twin created by aliens from my blood and nurtured by them on some distant planet. Every year they came and took me to him. We would play together for awhile, and then they would take us into a room, connect us up to machines and check us out..."
Chapter Ten:
In 1999 Clarke met with a Navajo jeweler who shared his story. It involves a being who was tall, dark-skinned, with dark eyes and wearing a brown form fitting outfit and strange looking boots. Also, he wore gloves and "there was some kind of covering over head like a hood" that "was really tight like elastic". His account involves 3 incidents, when he was 7, 17 and 22.
The first encounter occurred when he saw a stranger outside his grandfather's place. He tells his grandfather and they both go outside where the being is seen examining an unfamiliar small metal device. The grandfather learns that the device used to locate the being's craft isn't functioning and that the being became lost in the canyons. Somehow the being communicated to his grandfather the situation where the being got separated from his collegues and had difficulty finding the craft.
The three of them head out with the grandfather stopping periodically to check footprints. They find the round, dull-silvered and seamless craft on the other side of a ridge and there the being was greeted by collegues (who bow to the grandfather when introduced).
As the craft departs the grandfather and his grandson move to a safe distance.
The being briefly showed up for a visit 10 years later and then a last time five years later when the grandfather is dying and the grandson is living there as his caretaker.
While the grandson never heard their conversations, the grandfather related his impressions and what he apparently learned: "They were friendly and meant us no harm" and were a long-time presence here where "they come to remind us to keep everything in harmony". The grandfather also noted they were "seed layers", meaning "they brought seeds to Earth to see if they would grow and then come back to check on them". The seeds are plants and animals.
In this chapter Clarke published a separate account from another jeweler, a silversmith, who had his own random encounter with an extraterrestrial while out camping one night around a campfire.
The "person" who approached was not a nearby neighbor, realized when he saw the red eyes of a being wearing a silver-blue suit.
"He must have noticed my astonishment because he introduced himself as a star traveler....He explained his mission was to collect specimens of grass, plants, soil, and rocks, but while walking had become tired. Although there is oxygen on his world, it is much different than ours.....[He] "pointed toward the edge of the Milky Way" for location of his home.
Clarke asked how they communicated and the witness said "I have tried to figure that out".
During the 15 to 20 minute visit the learns a few things: "He was a scientist doing a job. He had been to Earth in other locations but his favorite place was the desert. He said his ancestors had visited this area many thousands of years ago when the land was not so lacking of water. On the reservation, there was little chance he would meet humans, and he could conduct his work without interfering with the life forms of Earth. I asked him why he had entered my campsite. He said he could not resist the temptation of talking to a human although it was likely he would be reprimanded should his superiors learn of this infraction."
The witness also asked about reported abductions and is told that while his species did not do that "there many civilizations or worlds out there" and some who "conduct experiments, abduct humans and even steal them". The witness had the impression the visitor was reluctant to talk about this issue. He didn't seem to know why some humans were "stolen".
Chapter Eleven:
This chapter includes two separate accounts that highlighted a stunning feature that's evident in a case from Book 2 in Chapter Four there.
In the first case, related to Clarke in 2001 by a Navajo elder, the witness drove Ardy out to a bluff overlooking the valley and described what happened 14 months prior as he sat in his truck to think and pray there.
"After saying my prayers, I started to leave.
That's when I saw it. It came in over the mountain in the distance and banked to the left and then landed. It was huge---almost filled the valley floor. I was amazed at how a craft so large could maneuver over those buttes and just set down perfectly.....There were so many lights, it looked like a city."
"I got in the pickup and just waited. I wanted to be able to drive away fast if I needed to. It was then that a door opened. I sat quietly and watched as two men walked out of the craft. They looked around, but didn't see me. Then I saw them walk toward the mountain straight across from us, and when they got in front of the mountain they disappeared. I waited for two hours or more and suddenly they reappeared just as they disappeared." The craft left after the beings re-entered. The next day the elder went to that spot and couldn't find an entrance and he presumed they may have just walked through the rock.
Clarke interviewed another person, much younger, who she learns experienced witnessing a similar event. A UFO had appeared as he was driving and crossed the road. Out of curiosity he goes towards the eastern direction he saw the craft go and he "I took a left turn onto the dirt road toward the mesa to check it out." He notes he saw it about 7 miles from the road and well hidden. He turned off his lights and watched the scene.
"I saw three beings, they looked like humans...They were walking around the craft as if looking for something. Then all of a sudden, one of them found something and called the others over". At that point "they disappeared. It was like the earth opened and swallowed them."
The witness stayed hidden for 3 hours watching and eventually they reappeared and entered the craft. "Then suddenly the craft began to move upwards slowly" and as it moves toward a mesa it rapidly departs rapidly. The next day he checked the scene out and found no traces.
Chapter Sixteen (a 2nd case in this chapter not profiled in my initial paper):
Two young witnesses are interviewed by Clarke after the father (a "respected tribal leader"who she knew well) of one of the young women asks Clarke to encourage her to return to college.
A group of 4 cousins went camping after visiting their grandmother nearby. They set up their tent and rode horses up a familiar canyon. After riding a mile they come across "a huge circular object" covering the canyon floor. They see "red and white throbbing lights at the bottom that lit the canyon wall". Their horses are spooked. One of the young men in the group starts walking towards the craft and the others see him instantly disappear.
The other three, now horrified, hid in the shadows of the canyon and waited and watched. After two hours they see their cousin emerge "out of the bright light". The craft is then seen moving upwards beyond the canyon and then disappearing rapidly.
The young man remembered seeing the craft but nothing about his time aboard it. The group rode their horses to their grandmother's and later, in the evening of the next day, take the now sick young man (who had emerged from the craft with a sunburned face ) to the clinic where he's kept for a few days to recover.
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Book 2
Sky People: Untold Stories of Alien Encounters in Mesoamerica
2015
New Page Books (The Career Press, Inc)
There are 46 cases in 4 sections. My paper providing summary profiles of 10 of those cases is here:
Book 3
More Encounters With Star People: Urban American Indians Tell Their Stories
Anomalist Books
2016
There are 39 cases in this book. My paper providing summary profiles of 8 of these cases is here:
Book 4
Space Age Indians
Anomalist Books
2019
There are 42 cases in 3 sections in this book. My paper providing summary profiles of 13 of these cases is here:
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